Archive for September, 2008

My summer ‘vacation.’

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Rebuild the house? Check. Do a new logo, animation, and station design for some nice people in Portland?

Check.
By the way, the KOIN Local 6 package was delivered completely online…no tape whatsoever…and was the first that I could watch premiere live from across the country, streaming from their website. Nice.
Oh, and I put a few [...]

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Back to you.

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

A fellow Postie—that is, of course, someone who worked at the Ohio University Post in Athens in the olden days—made a cogent observation about the Republican ticket:
“Think of all the newscasts that feature the avuncular old pro who’s been at the station for years, teamed with the youthful, attractive female anchor,” said P.J. Bednarski. executive [...]

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Doing battle with language.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’m all for the power of metaphor, but it seems like the folks who write plain old everyday news copy have learned somewhere to “enhance” their work by casting every news event in the terms of a battle, a struggle, a clash, a fight.
Barack Obama “takes it to” John McCain, “pummeling” him in his acceptance [...]

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